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with 301 you will lose some of the link juice, but some will be transferred.

I don't remember where I have read regarding this issue, but if I remember well the number was something like 85% transferred? (Correct me If I am wrong)

Cheers,

Istvan

Hi k9byron,

First of all, the three links provided are three very different ones:

1. http://72.3.181.97/catalog/DesignerDogBeds.aspx - no result

2. https://www.k9electronics.com/product.php?productid=3474 - PetSafe PAC19-12069 Spray Refill - Citronella

3. http://www.k9electronics.com/designer-dog-beds/ - designer-dog-beds category

But IF I have understood the question well... Then you are asking which form to use for the redirect.

I would go to redirect the old page to the "clean url". The cleaner the url is, the easier is to optimize for. So go for that version if possible.

I hope it hepled,

Istvan

Atul,

in long term you can find duplicate content if you don't prevent it. (just because there might be some path problem).

For ex.

you have product A that can be reached through Cat. A or Cat. B, so you will have two paths:

example.com/catA/prodA

example.com/catB/prodA

Which will be the same product reached from two pages -> two different URls with same content -> duplicate content

Regarding Frames:

Currently you have 1 URL because of the frames.

If you would go for 1 page for each product, then you could optimize better the content for the specific keywords.

Istvan

Hi Atul,

First of all I would advice to get rid of frames. It is a lot healthier to have a site that can be crawled more easily by the search engines.

2nd: you miss a lot of on-page optimization elements.

3rd: if the website is going to grow in products over time, you should think about information architecture. Go check in advance if you can get duplicate content issues because of multiple paths that can reach 1 product, and try to eliminate it. (p.s. advice - check for a faceted navigation at the products, maybe it will help you out)

4th: don't forget that content is king. Check for the keywords which you are targeting, create a keyword mapping, then on the most important pages/keywords write awesome content! And I mean the best you can deliver. This way you will give a boost from content.

5th: custom 404 pages, sitemaps...

Basically you still have a lot to do on the website.

Good luck with it!

I hope it helped,

Istvan

Hi AWCthreads,

Your question was: "Does the absence of keywords in the url significantly impact the page rank of an article?"

Now if we talk about Google PageRank, then you should not worry about it. But if we look at search engines rankings, then you should.

Using your keywords in the URl, gathering every +signal for the search engines may help you in gathering higher on-page SEO score, which will eventually lead to a higher ranking also for the targeted keywords.

I hope it helped,

Istvan

Salut Maldini!

I believe that the competition is working too That is all.

I will check on this later on when I get home from the office, and then I will get you some more information about what is happening.

Cheers,

Istvan

HI Samir,

Could you give some technical details? Like what kind of OS do you use, what internet browser, etc. These type of information can help "seoMoz techies" answer you question.

Istvan

Hi JJ,

The usage of canonical tag on the document could help you out.

For ex. in the file: 24%22-Sting.html you can insert the canonical tag

You should insert the canonical tag before the .

This way you will exclude the following pages to be indexed:

| www.joannalark.com/store/products/24"-Sting.html?setCurrencyId=1 |
| www.joannalark.com/store/products/24"-Sting.html?setCurrencyId=6 |
| www.joannalark.com/store/products/24"-Sting.html?setCurrencyId=7 |

Also you will transfer the "link juice" from these pages and focus only on one page: 24%22-Sting.html

I hope it helped,

Istvan

Hi vlevit,

The best practice would be to exist a direct path of flow from index page. Something like: index -> category(filter) -> subcategory(filter) -> page/product. But in some cases xml sitemaps can also help you in indexing.

BUT, beware with to large XML sitemaps, try to create more then one sitemap, group them as possible.

A few very good resources can be found under the next links:

http://www.seomoz.org/ugc/solving-new-content-indexation-issues-for-large-b2b-websites

http://www.seomoz.org/qa/view/29009/sitemaps-management-for-big-sites-tens-of-millions-of-pages

I hope it helpes,

Istvan

thank you for the follow up, Dr. Pete!

the index page canonical should point to index page,

the content page to the same content page (it is just for eliminating the duplicate issue)

don't put a canonical that points to a page that is not its duplicate

ok, good luck!

you have 1 page, that can be reached from two or even more paths. we talk about these paths, and these are creating the duplicate content.

It is like having your site duplicate on your non www. of your domain.

With the canonical, you tell search engines which path, which .html file you are optimizing for.

you just insert into each html file the canonical that points to www url. and it should work it out.

Hi again

So basically canonicals are better.

And why you get this: when robots crawl your website they see the following pages as different:

example.com/index.html

example.com/

www.example.com/index.html

www.example.com

And we could continue with variants. Canonicals tell search engines that these pages are the same, and they should handle it as same page.

so if you put a into index file, you will have the following results:

www.example.com (no matter which URL does the search engine visit, they will handle as the canonical link)

This is also good for links, because people might link to you as example.com or example.com/index, etc. etc. Then if you insert the canonical you focus all the links to one URL.

Hope it helped,

Istvan

Hi,

These duplicate URLs can be resolved two ways easily.

1. 301 from non www. to www. or vice versa

2. canonical to one of the links.

This way you will focus all the link juice on only one page. More power

I hope it helped,

Istvan

http://pro.seomoz.org/tools/crawl-test should solve the problem, if you dont want to have more then 3000 pages crawled.

I have used this tool a few times, it looks fine

Istvan

Thumbs up for Keri, it was my mistake to ask for a link.

Hi Tai,

I would prefer sub-folders, as I have understood the PR flow better to sub-folders than to sub-domains.

Here are a few useful resources:

http://www.mattcutts.com/blog/subdomains-and-subdirectories/

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/subdomains-subfolders-and-toplevel-domains

http://www.seomoz.org/blog/understanding-root-domains-subdomains-vs-subfolders-microsites

I hope it helps,

Istvan

Hi Tommy,

Could we please get a link to the application?

In general (before checking the app. itself) I would go for a sub-folders / each city, then target the specific sub-folder for the specific city. The homepage could be optimized for the service keyword with the initial geo market. But that is only one opinion.

Maybe after a link to the application, we can get more detailed plan.

Hope it helped,

Istvan